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Inusitation :: Inusitation (n.) Want of use; disuse.

Desuetude :: Desuetude (n.) The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion..

Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil..

Disusage :: Disusage (n.) Gradual cessation of use or custom; neglect of use; disuse.

Disuse :: Disuse (n.) Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse..

Friend :: Friend (n.) One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers..

Post-captain :: Post-captain (n.) A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was posted, in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse..

Digamma :: Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse..

Trones :: Trones (n.) A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused..

Baritone :: Baritone (n.) The viola di gamba, now entirely disused..

Astrolabe :: Astrolabe (n.) An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

Obsoletism :: Obsoletism (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism.

Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.

Lamarckism :: Lamarckism (n.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs..

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].

Angelot :: Angelot (n.) An instrument of music, of the lute kind, now disused..

Obsolete :: Obsolete (a.) No longer in use; gone into disuse; disused; neglected; as, an obsolete word; an obsolete statute; -- applied chiefly to words, writings, or observances..

Revive :: Revive (v. i.) Hence, to recover from a state of neglect or disuse; as, to revive letters or learning..

Disuse :: Disuse (v. t.) To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.

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